Life in All its Fullness – And Not Just Making Do!

We celebrate Jesus coming to the world at Christmas and then we live out the wonder of that during the coming year. I’ve been encouraged and challenged as 2019 marches on, by a dream I had on Christmas Eve.

Do you dream a lot?

I don’t remember my dreams very often but some nights I have a dream and it just hits me and it’s so vivid and so significant that I ask myself – Is this a God dream?

So in this dream I was shopping. Do you like shopping?

I think you either love it or hate it don’t you? I’m in the former category.

I was looking round a shop where there was lots of pottery type items. I bought an appealing well-made bowl. I was happy with my purchase.

AND THEN I DROPPED IT!

It smashed into many pieces.

And my immediate reaction was to get down on the floor and scramble about trying to find and pick up all the pieces. I was sure I could pull it back together. So, I continued scrambling trying to make the pieces fit together again.

It didn’t look good!

But I was saying – “It’s fine. It will do. It’s the best I can do!”

And then something amazing happened.

A shop assistant came over and said

“Here’s a new one! Take this new one. You can’t have this broken one. You need to have this new one.”